Veganism with Stephanie Braganza - MAD Monster Class

2018

Stephanie Braganza speaks about becoming vegan and some of the misconceptions people have about transitioning to a plant based diet. #MonsterArtist

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ABOUT STEPHANIE BRAGANZA

#MonsterArtist Stephanie Braganza is a powerhouse vocalist who weaves a sonic tapestry blending elements of pop and rock. Stephanie’s performances helped her win a Toronto Independent Music Award for Best Live Artist. Stephanie and her band have performed at festivals including Desifest, #MonsterRock Orchestra, Taste of the Danforth, Toronto Veg Food Fest; and at most well-known venues in the GTA. An outspoken animal rights activist, her latest music video; “Chains of Silence” has won two 2017 Global Music awards for “Best Female Vocalist” and “Best Music Video,” and has received support from Bif Naked, Tony Kanal (No Doubt) and PETA. In celebration of Canada’s South Asian Heritage Month in May 2017, Stephanie was listed in CBC Music’s top “10 South Asian–Canadian Artists You Need to Hear Right Now”.

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Born in 2011, MonstrARTity Creative Community is a not-for-profit organization, based in Mississauga and committed to providing entertainment for the young and old alike. Ever expanding our productions, MonstrARTity is the producer of #BollywoodMonster Mashup, which is the largest South Asian festival in Canada, as well as the team behind the award-winning #MonsterRock Orchestra show.

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it’s not being biased or anything like

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dairy is one of the worst things it

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creates mucus in your you know in your

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throat and you’re drinking that and that

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affects like all the liquids in your

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body you know it affects or your voice

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and everything like that so if you want

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to have a clear voice it for sure be

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drinking like hot teas lukewarm water so

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one of the things that I use it’s not

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like staple for all singers but it’s

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staple for me is oil of oregano with

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olive oil and I just find that if you’ve

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got any issues with your throat that day

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like it just kind of cleanses it all

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away and and and it’s just really

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helpful I forgot mine today but but

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that’s what I would normally use I think

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the hardest thing for people like in my

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experience of speaking with a lot of

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people is it’s very normal to them and

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as soon as you you start to tell them

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that the foods you’ve been eating your

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whole life is unhealthy or you know you

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know why don’t you stop having your

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favorite pizza and you know you know

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have something cruelty free you know

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people get a little bit upset because

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it’s they they relate their favorite

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foods to traditions you know

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Thanksgiving Christmas things they grow

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grew up with they remember their parents

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like doing all this stuff you know like

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with them and so it’s like they think

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about all these things so they get a

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little bit upset they get a little bit

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defensive when I start saying no you

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need to change I don’t say no you need

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to change I say please be open to

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changing because like but I try to tell

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people you’re not giving up anything

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like if you if your favorite thing is I

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don’t know I guess yeah Pizza Pizza

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Pizza and Pizza Nova they’ve got dairy

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free cheese now like you know I can have

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pizza whenever I want and there’s so

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many options for your favorite foods now

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like it’s kind of no excuse at this

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point you know in Toronto and in a lot

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of the big cities like like pretty much

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every corner there’s like a vegan option

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or a vegan restaurant

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or something and it’s not just salads

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and I think that’s the other thing that

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people are was thinking it’s you know

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salads like no there’s there’s junk food

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there’s filling foods there’s so many

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things and I think one of the cool thing

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of things about becoming vegan is um you

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know I grew up eating meat right and I

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was always having the same foods like

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like hamburgers and fries and just like

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bad foods that were just easily

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accessible and as soon as I had to start

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to take that stuff out I started to

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discover new foods I never had before

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because like you know you have to start

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finding things right and and there’s

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just so many things that are now my

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favorite foods that are plant-based that

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I didn’t know about growing up when I

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was younger it’s not only good for your

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health it’s good for the environment

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it’s good for the animals like you know

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doctors are proven over and over you

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don’t need to have animal products to

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survive and to thrive so so why right

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all the biggest heart disease diabetes

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cancer it’s all from animal products you

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know if you have a heart attack like the

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doctors gonna say you need to go on a

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plant-based diet right like why do you

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have to wait till that happens so so yes

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when people are open to it like I talked

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to them about and I tell them as much as

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I can and I’m just totally happy about

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that

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